<<< This is a guest blog – actually a ‘re-blog’ – by Dr Jez PHILLIPS, senior lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Chester.  Reproduced with his permission, I’d nevertheless direct you to his blog for yourself, replete with insight and resources which are well worth a look.  He’s also starting a fascinating piece […]

As my interest in mental health developed into just some knowledge around it, I noticed that the phone started to ring more frequently.  I now get around 20 emails a week asking something about mental health – often specific legal or procedural questions after jobs have proved difficult. Sometimes it rings when I’m at home […]

Properly considered a Mexican standoff is a three-way situation where guns are pointed around in a circle: each person holds power over one other and is simultaneously at someone’s mercy.  Difficult to resolve that!  This story involves police, ambulance and A&E and is a true story given to me by an exhausted police officer who […]